ESPM 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Ion Semiconductor Sequencing, Rpob, Base Pair
Lecture 16-17: Microbial Community Analysis
●Complexity of soil: physical and chemical heterogeneity, complex 3D structure
●Biomarkers : mols of bio origin that are used to indicate processes and indicate presence of
organisms
○Should be unique to an organism → indep of env inluence
○Ideal:
■Found in all microbes
■Taxon rank and leads to sp/subsp
■Can be isolated from living microbes
■Doesn’t persist “outside” microbes
■Can detect in v small quant
○Options:
■Nuc acids/proteins (NAs meet most of criteria)
■lipids/polysaccharides
■Metabolites
○Nucleic acids as biomarkers:
■PCR increases detection (1983)
■Nuc acids evolve w/ host
●Exception: horiz gene transfer
●struct/housekeeping genes are not/rarely transferred - more likely to
have co-evolved, commonly used are rRNA (16/18S)
●Universal phylogenetic tree based on SSU rRNA - conserved/variable
regions
●16S RNA : 1.5k bp, conserved and var regions
○Alternate biomarkers: limited databases
■gyrB : gyrase subunit, evolves faster than SSU
■recA : recombinase A, evolves faster than SSU, higher resolution (more variable)
■rpoB : rib polymerase, single copy/genome
■ITS regions : high var, choice for fungi
●Processes:
○Extraction : cell lysis, DNA protection and recovery, purification
○PCR : amplifies lower copy-level genes, add primers and DNApoly, heat to sep, rpt
■Limitations:
●Bias from universal primers
●Variation in amplification eficiency
●Primer annealing
●Gene copy number varies (1-20), so can’t be used to quantify unless
number is known
●Chimeras
●Substrate exhaustion : most abundant molecules amplified first, not
enough reagents to amplify least abundant
○Sequencing : cost per gigabase dec exponentially
■Old: Sanger’s, Pyrosequencing, Ion torrent (pH sensing)
Document Summary
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